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Template:Short description Template:Infobox officeholder Douglas Howard Ginsburg (born May 25, 1946) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a senior United States circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He is also a professor of law at the Antonin Scalia Law School of George Mason University.

Ginsburg was appointed to the D.C. Circuit in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan, and he served as its chief judge from 2001 to 2008. In 1987, Reagan announced his intention to nominate Ginsburg as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Ginsburg withdrew his name from consideration two weeks later in the wake of news reports that he had smoked marijuana in the past.<ref name=lnsgaupi>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=gwacnmerg>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=srdffgwd>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Reagan instead nominated Anthony Kennedy.

Ginsburg took senior status in October 2011, and joined the faculty of New York University School of Law in January 2012.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2013, he left NYU and began teaching at George Mason University. He is the author of scholarly works on U.S. antitrust law and constitutional law.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Early life and education

Ginsburg was born on May 25, 1946, in Chicago, Illinois, to Katherine (née Goodmont) and Maurice Ginsburg.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> After graduating from the Latin School of Chicago in 1963, he entered Cornell University as a classics major. He dropped out in 1965 due to "boredom" and co-founded Operation Match, an early computer dating service based in Boston, Massachusetts. Ginsburg sold the company in 1968 and returned to Cornell, graduating in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial relations.<ref name="shenon19871030">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="mathews19651103">Template:Cite news</ref>

Ginsburg then attended the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review along with future federal judge Frank Easterbrook and future billionaire businessman David Rubenstein. He graduated in 1973 with a J.D. degree and membership in the Order of the Coif.

Career

After law school, Ginsburg was a law clerk to Judge Carl E. McGowan of the D.C. Circuit from 1973 to 1974 and to U.S. Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall from 1974 to 1975.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He then became a professor at Harvard Law School, where he taught labor law, administrative law, antitrust law, and other subjects.

In 1983, Ginsburg joined the administration of President Ronald Reagan as a deputy assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division. In 1984, he became the administrator of the Executive Office of the President's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and in 1985 he was appointed Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division.

From 1988 to 2008, Ginsburg was an adjunct professor at the George Mason University School of Law (now Antonin Scalia Law School), where he taught a seminar called "Readings in Legal Thought".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Until 2011 he was also a Visiting Lecturer and Charles J. Merriam Scholar at the University of Chicago Law School in Chicago, Illinois. Ginsburg has been a visiting professor at Columbia University Law School (1987–1988) and a visiting scholar at New York Law School (2006–2008).

Ginsburg is currently a professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School. He was previously a visiting professor at University College London Faculty of Laws.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He serves on the advisory boards of the Global Antitrust Institute (Chairman), the Jevons Institute for Competition Law and Economics and the Centre for Law, Economics, and Society, both at University College London, Faculty of Laws; Competition Policy International; Journal of Competition Law & Economics; Journal of Law, Economics & Policy; Supreme Court Economic Review; University of Chicago Law Review; and the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy.

Federal judicial service

Ginsburg was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on September 23, 1986, to a seat on the District of Columbia Circuit vacated by Judge J. Skelly Wright. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 8, 1986, and received his commission on October 14, 1986. He served as Chief Judge of the D.C. Circuit from 2001 to 2008, and he assumed senior status on October 14, 2011.<ref>Template:FJC Bio</ref>

He was a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States, 2001–2008, and previously served on its Budget Committee, 1997–2001, and Committee on Judicial Resources, 1987–1996; American Bar Association, Antitrust Section, Council, 1985–1986 (ex officio), 2000–2003 and 2009–2012 (judicial liaison); Boston University Law School, Visiting Committee, 1994–1997; and University of Chicago Law School, Visiting Committee, 1985–1988.

United States Supreme Court nomination

Ginsburg with President Ronald Reagan in 1987

On October 29, 1987, President Reagan announced his intention to nominate Ginsburg to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Lewis Powell,<ref name=msdomong>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead link</ref><ref name=ppynj>Template:Cite news</ref> which had been announced on June 26.<ref name=mjptlsc>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead link</ref> Ginsburg was chosen after the United States Senate, controlled by Democrats, had voted down the nomination of Judge Robert Bork after a highly controversial nomination battle which ended with a 42–58 rejection vote on October 23.<ref name=blbsv>Template:Cite news</ref>

Ginsburg's nomination collapsed for entirely different reasons from Bork's rejection, as he almost immediately came under some fire when NPR's Nina Totenberg revealed that Ginsburg had used marijuana "on a few occasions" during his student days in the 1960s and while an assistant professor at Harvard in the 1970s. It was Ginsburg's continued use of marijuana after graduation and as a professor that made his actions more serious in the minds of many senators and members of the public.<ref name="sabato"> Template:Cite news</ref> Ginsburg was also accused of a financial conflict of interest during his work in the Reagan Administration, but a Department of Justice investigation under the Ethics in Government Act determined the allegation was baseless.<ref>Hall, Kermit, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States, page 339, Oxford Press, 1992</ref>

Due to the allegations, Ginsburg withdrew his name from consideration on November 7,<ref name=gwacnmerg/><ref name=srdffgwd/> and remained on the Court of Appeals, serving as chief judge for most of the 2000s. Anthony Kennedy was then nominated on November 11 and confirmed in early February 1988 as an associate justice of the Supreme Court.<ref name=sckndy>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead link</ref><ref name="nyt-clamor">Template:Cite news</ref>

Personal life

Ginsburg married the public relations consultant Deecy Gray in 2007 in a ceremony at the U.S. Supreme Court performed by Chief Justice John Roberts.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He has three daughters from two previous marriages.

Selected scholarly works

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